Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : allvi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Allium littoreum Bertoloni, Porrum arenarium Reichenbach
Classification: Liliaceae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: wild onion
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Weinberg-Lauch ; ES : ajito de las viñas ; FR : ail des vignes ; IT : aglio delle vigne ; PT : alho-das-vinhas ; EN : wild onion ; NL : Kraailook ;
Biological type: Perennial with bulbs, Perennial with bulbils
- Plant propagates vegetatively by bulb and bulbil; establishment from seedling is exceptional. Leaves sheathing, cylindrical, linear, with garlic smell.
Plant:
- Height: 30 80 cm.
- Stem cylindrical, full,leafy until the middle. Bulb surrounded with bulbils.
- Leaves sub cylindrical, hollowed, long and pointed, rounded underside,the leafsheath surrounds stem in lower half.
- Flowers slightly pale, rose or whitish, with numerous bulbils. Pedicels bulbing in upper part. Perianth in umbel with visible stamens, petals and elongated sepals.
- Fruit: Capsules with top umbilicate.
- Plant troublesome in meadows because of the taste of garlic it can give to meat and butter via grazing cattle. Plant with garlic smell.
- Risk of confusion with: Muscari neglectum Guss. , Allium paniculatum All.
- Biological type: perennial with bulbs and bulbils.
Mistake with : Muscari neglectum , Allium paniculatum
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